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	<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:58:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>On the reading table (mid Feb 2009)</title>
		<link>http://blog.randyconnolly.org/?p=143</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 06:17:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I usually like to have five or six books on the go. Over the past few days, I have been shuffling between the following three books.

Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery by Garr Reynolds. I found this one in my college library&#8217;s new collection shelf. This book provides insight and inspiration for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mount Royal University</title>
		<link>http://blog.randyconnolly.org/?p=136</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alberta&#8217;s Minister of Advanced Education and Technology, Doug Horner, has introduced draft legislation to amend the provincial Post-Secondary Learning Act, which if approved, would allow Mount Royal College (where I teach) to apply to use &#8220;university&#8221; in its name.
More details about the proposed amendment can be found on the Government of Alberta&#8217;s Advanced Education and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Applications for BCIS degree: 60% improvement</title>
		<link>http://blog.randyconnolly.org/?p=139</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:22:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the title suggests, applications for our new Bachelor of Computer Information Systems degree (4 year) have been quite encouraging. Compared to this time last year, we have received over 60% more applications from prospective students. This improvement could be due to three reasons:

prospective students want a four year credential
prospective students like the curriculum in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Fail Your Courses</title>
		<link>http://blog.randyconnolly.org/?p=65</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:39:03 +0000</pubDate>
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Every September in the first week of classes we have an orientation day for our first year students. One of the highlights of the day is a presentation that I and my colleague Mark Schroeder give on how to achieve success as an undergraduate. Rather than make the presentation all preachy, we decided to have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BCIS Degree Approved</title>
		<link>http://blog.randyconnolly.org/?p=130</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today we received news that Doug Horner, Minister of Advanced Education and Technology for the Alberta government has received the recommendation of the Campus Alberta Quality Council and has approved our proposal to offer a bachelor of Computer Information Systems starting September 2009. We now have to go through the process of getting the degree [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Being Unnatural: iPodolatry, Crackberries, and the 	Absent Presence</title>
		<link>http://blog.randyconnolly.org/?p=108</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 20:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
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This May I gave a talk on BlackBerries and iPods for the College&#8217;s Faculty Professional Development retreat in Banff. Unlike the typical presentation at a conference, in which you are limited to about 20-25 minutes, I was given a generous 60 minutes, which allowed for significantly more audience participation and discussion, and thus was quite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Posters for CS/CIS Promotion</title>
		<link>http://blog.randyconnolly.org/?p=100</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
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As mentioned in an earlier post, one of the problems that our department has struggled with over the past seven or eight years is the massive decline in student enrolments in our Computer Information Systems applied degreee and our Computer Science university transfer program. This year for the College&#8217;s Open House for new students, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Outlook on IT Enrolments</title>
		<link>http://blog.randyconnolly.org/?p=95</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:24:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the problems that our department has struggled with over the past seven or eight years is the massive decline in student enrolments in our Computer Information Systems applied degreee and our Computer Science university transfer program. Since the height of the dot com boom in 2000, are numbers have declined by about 75%, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>COMP 3309 - Lecture 12 - Instrumental Theories of Technology</title>
		<link>http://blog.randyconnolly.org/?p=92</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below I&#8217;ve included some snippets from my lecture on the Instrumental Theory of Technology from my course COMP 3309 - Computers and Society.
 
Last lecture we discussed the &#8220;Substantive critique of technology,&#8221; the view that technology creates a frame of mind, a way of thinking about the world, that displaces any other way of thinking. More so than other ways [...]]]></description>
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		<title>COMP 3309 - Lecture 11 - Substantive Critique of Technology</title>
		<link>http://blog.randyconnolly.org/?p=84</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:36:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below I&#8217;ve included some snippets from my lecture on the Substantive Critique of Technology from my course COMP 3309 - Computers and Society.
We finished the last lecture with a discussion of Max Weber and his pessimistic vision of a modern world locked in a conceptual &#8220;iron cage&#8221; in which we can only see the world through the [...]]]></description>
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